Were Quotes

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

I know we can fix our problems. When there are people in the room who care more about doing the job they were elected to do than they worry about winning reelection, it is possible to work together, achieve principal compromise, and get results for the people who give us these jobs in the first place.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

I am a big 'Ellen' fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.